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To: RightWhale
I am sure there is an engineering solution, I am just not sure if we have building materials (steel (alloys), cement/concrete, titanium (alloys), and modern ceramics) that can do the job right now.

In ten years or so, sure, with nano-carbon fibers (with metal alloys and ceramics mixed in), harvested spider-silk and mass-produced diamonds.

But right now I am unsure.

475 posted on 01/02/2004 4:51:28 PM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Paul C. Jesup
It would be something we haven't attempted before. Really big, maybe bigger than any engineering project so far. A lot of new tech might have to be developed. A lot of new engineers would have to be graduated. Materials science would have to advance. Sooner or later, if we expect to be masters of this planet, we'll have to be able to deal with things like this.
478 posted on 01/02/2004 4:54:49 PM PST by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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